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Originally Posted by JeanLucPicard
First of all, they could be not stupid enough to get into a situation where they're left with the option of killing the person. If you are doing a wellness check, what is the urgency to get inside the apartment where the only threat is that the man may take his own life? No one else is around.
I am not an expert to deal with this but there could be more waiting and patience by the police since the guy was inside the house and not a threat to anyone. Waiting for an entire day to calm the situation is still better than killing the person.
They could also ask for assistance from the people who are actually capable and trained to handle and deescalate situations involving mental patients. A schizophrenic guy isn't exactly going to calm down once he sees a bunch of cops outside his door and balcony. Again, lack of proper training and strategy for specific scenarios.
And secondly, we have to expect the police to be able to use their guns in a manner than don't kill someone. Have better protective equipment, be prepared to physically control a 62 year old weak man with a knife; If you've to use a gun, use it on the legs instead of having no brain and shot directly at the body multiple times.
We have to expect more from police. If you were in that situation, I would understand if you took same actions. Police needs to be able to do a lot more, and even put themselves in danger to save the other life. Its the hard and risky route to take for a cop, but it is still better than killing someone.
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I agree we need to expect more from the police. I like that there is a potential for change coming to policing.
I'm just saying there are too many unknowns in this video that it doesn't do a good job of illustrating your point. We don't know what was going on in the apartment. We don't know why they scaled a balcony versus coming in the front door. We don't know what happened with the taser (did it malfunction? did it hit him but he didn't react? did they even use it?). We can't see half of what's going on.
I don't know how you can draw so many conclusions from this video. I'm not able to see what you're seeing here.